Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College will get final examinations tomorrow, but no CRIMSON. Next week the paper enters its Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday exam period schedule, but before that begins, there'll be a paper this Friday and nothing very much on Saturday and Sunday or on Saturday in two weeks...
...Dayton, Ohio, offered to sell out to Publisher James M. Cox last summer, he was "a bit shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
Newsprint costs and wages were too high for Rock, who still owed about $1,000,000 on the purchase of the papers in 1935. Though monopoly was bad for the press, Cox and Rock decided heavy debts were worse. "If a press is to be independent," said Cox, "it has to be financially stable." Last week, for an undisclosed price, Cox bought the Republican Journal and the independent Herald, and merged them into one morning paper (the Journal Herald). That left the evening field to his New Dealing News, and made Dayton (pop. 300,000), Ohio's 6th largest...
...editor & publisher of the new paper, Owner Cox picked conservative Dwight ("Deke") Young, 55, longtime editor of the old Journal and Herald. He would be free to support any candidates and policies he wanted to. The News and the Journal Herald would also have separate plants and separate, competitive news staffs. Owner Cox said he had "instructed the managing editors to beat each other's brains...
This use of the additional newsprint stirred up a bitter argument in Fleet Street pubs like the Codgers and the Two Brewers. Exploded one news editor: "After all our outcry for more paper, what do we do with it? Throw it away on women's tripe, godawful strips and shoddy fiction!" Replied a feature editor: "Go bury your head! Variety, entertainment, interest . . . Let's shovel it in by the bucket...